SUICIDE SQUEEZE The high spot of Teddy Folger's life was the day in 1954 that he got an autographed baseball card from Joe DiMaggio himself. It's been downhill ever since. Which is why he just unloaded his freeloading wife and torched his own comic-book store–in one of the stupidest insurance scams in history. Enter Conner Samson. The down-on-his-luck repo man has just been hired to repossess Teddy's boat. Little does he know there's a baseball card on board that some men are willing to kill for. Thus begins a rip-roaring cross-country odyssey–and with bodies piling up, the squeeze is on for the penultimate piece of Americana. And Conner will be lucky if he ends up back where he started: broke and (still) breathing. Rights Information Publisher: Delacorte Press, Hardcover (March 29, 2005) Bantam Dell, Mass market paperback (January 31, 2006) Territory: World Rights Available: Film/TV Reviews: "Rocking like a hammock in a hurricane...While every imaginable kind of chaos is busy ensuing, Gischler treats readers to an amusing cast of Elmore Leonard cast-offs that includes a pint-size Pensacola crime boss, a nympho girlfriend inexplicably named Tyranny Jones, and an ex-NSA agent who favors her late father's pearl-handled six-shooters in a fight. This is a fast, enjoyably silly read underpinned with a surprisingly humane world view." - Booklist "Gischler is a light and clever satirist who knows how to keep a narrative moving, and Conner, who has connections to the Southern art world and a foxy married ladyfriend named Tyranny Jones, is a character well worth another visit." - Publishers Weekly Gischler is one of those authors who writes so smoothly that he makes it look easy." - Peter Mergendahl Rocky Mountain News "Weaving an offbeat plot that includes many villains and several double-crosses - as well as a jaunt to a science-fiction convention where Conner is forced to don a Captain Kirk costume - Gischler is a wonderfully inventive plotter, and "Suicide Squeeze" has a loose, larky style the makes it practically a speed-reading experience." - John Keenan, Omaha World-Herald "Gischler keeps the humor at a high level throughout with witty asides and sharp, nasty observations...Consider it a guy book. And a hilarious one at that." - Detroit Free Press Blurbs: Purchase at Amazon.com

SUICIDE SQUEEZE

The high spot of Teddy Folger's life was the day in 1954 that he got an autographed baseball card from Joe DiMaggio himself. It's been downhill ever since. Which is why he just unloaded his freeloading wife and torched his own comic-book store–in one of the stupidest insurance scams in history.

Enter Conner Samson. The down-on-his-luck repo man has just been hired to repossess Teddy's boat. Little does he know there's a baseball card on board that some men are willing to kill for. Thus begins a rip-roaring cross-country odyssey–and with bodies piling up, the squeeze is on for the penultimate piece of Americana. And Conner will be lucky if he ends up back where he started: broke and (still) breathing.

Rights Information

Publisher: Delacorte Press, Hardcover (March 29, 2005)
Bantam Dell, Mass market paperback (January 31, 2006)

Territory: World

Rights Available: Film/TV

Reviews:
"Rocking like a hammock in a hurricane...While every imaginable kind of chaos is busy ensuing, Gischler treats readers to an amusing cast of Elmore Leonard cast-offs that includes a pint-size Pensacola crime boss, a nympho girlfriend inexplicably named Tyranny Jones, and an ex-NSA agent who favors her late father's pearl-handled six-shooters in a fight. This is a fast, enjoyably silly read underpinned with a surprisingly humane world view." - Booklist

"Gischler is a light and clever satirist who knows how to keep a narrative moving, and Conner, who has connections to the Southern art world and a foxy married ladyfriend named Tyranny Jones, is a character well worth another visit." - Publishers Weekly

Gischler is one of those authors who writes so smoothly that he makes it look easy." - Peter Mergendahl Rocky Mountain News

"Weaving an offbeat plot that includes many villains and several double-crosses - as well as a jaunt to a science-fiction convention where Conner is forced to don a Captain Kirk costume - Gischler is a wonderfully inventive plotter, and "Suicide Squeeze" has a loose, larky style the makes it practically a speed-reading experience." - John Keenan, Omaha World-Herald

"Gischler keeps the humor at a high level throughout with witty asides and sharp, nasty observations...Consider it a guy book. And a hilarious one at that." - Detroit Free Press

Blurbs:

Purchase at Amazon.com